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ft I One week rt a****"*""-.--*- .i-- "''is tV'',/,vv-'^ I, THE JOURNAL LUClAN SWIFT, MANAGBB. s. MCLAIN EDITOR. DEUVEBED BY GABBIER. cn* One month 85 centt SUBSCRIPTION BATES BY MAIL. Ope month *9*~ Three months Six months One year Saturday Eve. edition, 28 to S6 pages. J*r POSTAOE BATES OF SINGLE COPIES. Dp to 18 pages t Up to 86 pages cents Up to 04 pages 1.00 2.00 4.00 1.00 3 cent All papers are continued uptll an explicit order Is received for discontinuance and until all ar rearages are paid. PUBLICATION OFFICEMinneapolis, Minn. Journal building. 47-49 Fourth street S. WASHINGTON OFFICEW. W. Jermane, Chief of Washington Bureau, 901-902 Colorado build ing. Northwestern visitors to Washington in vited to make use of reception-room, library, stationery, telephone and telegraph facilities. Central location. Fourteenth and streets NW. Copies of The Journal and northwestern news papers on file. MEW YOBK OFFICETribune building, D. A. CAEBOLt. Manager. CHICAGO OFFICETribune building, W. Y. PERRY, Manager. LONDONJournal on file at American Express office, 8 Waterloo place, and U. S. Express office. 9 Strand. PARISJournal on file at Eagle bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. DENMARKJournal file at S. Legation. ST. PAUL OFFICE42n 0 EhdlcottUbuilding. Tele phone, N. W., Main 2S0. EAST SIDE OFFICECentral avenue and Sec ond street. Telephone, Main No. 9. TELEPHONEJournal has private switchboard for both lines. Call No. 9 either line and call for department-you wish to speak to. The Steel Rail Pool. Credit Mr. Taft with ono trust. We are told that internal dissensions among the .jcompone^t companies have disrupted the steel pool and that the price of rails is sure to drop in conse quence. It is expected that the rail roads will save in the neighborhood of $16,000,000 a year by the dissolution qf this pool. Unfortunately, not much advantage is to be expected this year, be cause since the first of the year the rail yoads have placed orders for 2,000,000 tons of rails at a cost of $56,000,000. .When they can buy rails Hereafter at. $20, which is the price in the foreign market, they will save $8 a ton on every ton of rails bought and with the pool disrupted, steel rails which are sup posed to cost approximately $12 a ton may be sold at home for even less than $20. The demand of the Eepublic Iron and Steel Rail company that it be paid a 'bonus of $100,000 a year to keep out of the market and the refusal of the pool to grant that demand, is said to .have been responsible for the "bust ing" of the trust. The Eepublic com pany was getting busy after that Pan ama contract and Secretary Taft was not averse to dealing with that com pany on the basis of $20 a ton. The rank extortion practiced, by the fail pool has become so notorious that i could no longer expect immunity from federal investigation. Such con spicuous instances of profiting by the tariff and combining .on .prices, as. .that afforded, by President Ramsey of the Wabash could not long be overlooked. President Ramsey as ready to show to the government that his road is com pelled to pay $28 a ton for rails de livered in the United States, while re quired to pay only $20 a ton for rails from the same mills delivered in Can ada. Unfortunately, the rail pool is not the only combination which is holding up the domestic consumer and doing it by the aid of the tariff. Behind the fortification of the tariff wall great abuses of the protective principle ex ist, and nothing has contributed so much to the exposure and ultimate overthrow of this system of extortion as the action of the government in -declaring its read iness to buy Panama canal supplies in the open markets of the world. Whether any considerable amount of such sup plies are bought in the world's markets or not, the declared willingness of the canal board to buy abroad when it could save money by doing so has put tariff revision very near the top of the list as one of the things that must be un dertaken at the next session of con gress. Senator Foraker and Secretary Taft rep resent the old and the new thought in politics. The Ohio state convention made Judge Taft temporary and permanent chairman and hailed him as "a favorite son" while Senator Foraker remained in Washington'during the convention work ing on a report in favor of the railroads. We Should Take Notice. There ought to be something suggest re and of value to the people of Min lesota in the decision of the supreme lourt of the United States upholding he franchise ax law of New York. The decision of the supreme court sus taining ths tax on the franchises of pub lic service corporations is expected to 4rin into the treasury of the the state, ind particularly the city of New York, ipproximately twenty-five millions of jjilollars which the corporations have re fused to pay, pending the ruling of the lourt. This franchise tax law was passed rhile Mr. Eoosevelt was governor of! Tew York and was made possible under bhe broad liberties accorded the-legis lature by the constitution of that state. Jnder such restrictions as exist iH the sonstitution, of the state of Minnesota he legislature is hampered in the ad justment of taxes to new conditions, ^nd we are to vote at the next election i an amendment which will practically ^remove all restrictions and leave the legislature free except that there shall no discrimination between proper les of the same class. There may be icrimination between classes of prop- Brty, but within the class there must be jniformity of valuation and assessment. Present restrictions so operate that n many instances property goes with out adequate taxation because it must valued and assessed on the same jasis as all other property. Many con ditions have arisen, indeed, many kinds "*o- piopexty,-have come into existence, since our constitution was adopted, and it is impossible to fit its antiquated provisions to our present necessities W could not, for-instance, do in the state of Minnesota what has been done in New York inthe way of taxng public franchises, and cannot do so until our constitution is made as liberal and our system of taxation as adjustable as that of New York. The decision of the supreme court in this case ought to be worth something toward carrying the proposed amendment at the next elec tion. Whether submarines were used during the fight or not, there are certainly a num ber of Russian submarines there now. At any rate Russia has more submarines than she had before the fight. i Insurance Payments. The New York Insurance Press pre sents some figures to show the great extent to which life insurance has be come a co-operative business in this country. In 1904 the life insurance companies of America (including Can ada) paid to4contract holders in divi dends, death claims, endowments, sur render values and annuities $372,000,- 000. These figures are significant 'of what life insurance is doing for the perpetuation of business enterprises, the protection of families and the com fort Of old age. There are billions of dollars of life insurance in force in the United States today, and the busi ness seems to be just developing. The assets held by old line companies are something like two and a half bil lion dollars, but it is not to be sup posed that this vast accumulation be longs to the companies. It is at the demand" of the: -policy holders under their contracts and is constantly being paid out arid Constantly being renewed by new investors in life, insurance. The Press shows that at the end of 102 thirty-nine companies in this coun try held $2,062,000,000 of assets and paid to policy holders $196,000,000. At this rate of distribution the whole of these assets would be returned in ten or eleven years. At the end of 1903 forty-two companies held assets amounting to $2,226,000,00.0 and paid policy holders $221,000,000, again show ing a total distribution in ten or eleven years. The business of life insurance as shown in this schedule of payments amounts simply to the taking, of peo ple 's money in instalments, putting it out at interest and returning it at pe riods fixed in the contract with all its earnings over and above the expenses of the business. This is why the ex penses of the business become such an important factor in life insurance, and why there is so much talk about the distribution of dividends. There is no such thing as a life insurance divi dend. It is merely arfother name for a refund of an overcharge, an over charge made in order that the business might be safely and surely conducted. Shrewd workers who are paid to give state legislators advice are having trouble. In his speech accepting a, second nomina tion the other day, Governor Herrick of Ohio denounced the professional lobby in vigorous language and announced the be ginning of a campaign to keep them out of Ohio legislative halls. ..govern or La, Follette is now getting ready to deal a smashing blow to the paid lobby. A bill with this object in view will be introduced and if possible passed. Governor Folk also succeeded dispersing an active lobby. All this is exceedingly demoralizing to what has long^ been a very profitable oc cupation. Light from Abroad. The European delegates to the inter national railroad congress, after travel ing thousands of miles over* American railroads, have recorded their opinion that the government would commit an error if it attempted to interfere with the making of rates. The delegates found, so far as they -were concerned, the rates exceptionally low and the en tertainment of a gratifying high char acter. In fact, the American railroads did themselves proud, and having earned the good opinion of the visiting dele gates, we record with unfeigned delight the fact that they have it. There is nothing quite so lovely as gratitude. But while they saw no chance for the government to improve conditions by making rates, it does not follow that the delegates have shut the government out entirely. W are informed that they see no reason -why the government should not legislate upon the subject of the Pullman car porter. They would doubtless agree that he should be put on more of an equality with the presi dents of the roads. In a democratic county it. does not seem right that a man, merely because he is black, should be the whole thing. On the subject of the Pullman pillow the delegates would doubtless agree that its size and weight, hardness and chem^ ical reaction should be regulated by law. It.should not be filled with spikes or railstraps, but with the yielding, friable constituent of decaying ties which the delegates found quite common along American railroads. On the regulation of station-gatemen the delegates did not report. Doubtless having met" a few, they were- noir suf ficiently recovered from the experience to frame a calm recommendationi But as to xateSj they are" unanimous that the government should kept its hands off and its feet out of the trough. The photographers used to laugh when admiral Nebogatoff faile"d to get started. Now he will Nebercorneback^ Roseau Chortles. Patience has ceased to be a virtue with the.people of Roseau. Since 189.0 the little village near the northern boundary, county seat of the county with the same name, has lived in hope of a railroad. It has labored, petitioned and pleaded with the officials of the Great Northern for a line that win give them railroad connections with the rest of Minnesota. Meanwhile the' eastern end of the county has been traversed by the Canadian Northern, and War road nas sprung up into a thriving rail road town. Still the great area of western. 'Roseau and. eastern. Marshall has remained inland. Last year the Thief Eiver Falls branch of the Great Northern was extended across the coun ty line to Greenbush, and hope was re- Wednesday Evening, JjJ^S 4.'-'-** ^w'V.^iit vived. The road was thought to be headed for Roseau and then for a con nection with the Canadian Northern. The hope was blasted, and the branch stopped at Greenbush. Roseau was dis appointed, but not daunted. Its efforts were unabated, and now R. J. Bell of the .Roseau Times announces that next year a road is to be built thru Roseau, connecting the Canadian Northern with the Soo's Winnipeg extension, and giv ing the long-suffering village an out let in both directions. The advent of this fresh hope moves the Roseau editor to have his say about Mr. Hill, who has kept them waiting so long in vain. As a matter of fact, no one cares whether the Great Northern extends from Greenbush or not. Tho people of Roseau county do not have to depend upon the G. N. For fifteen years we hauled our freight from Stephen, a dis tance of seventy-five miles, and thru the gates of Stephen came nine-tenths of the 14,000 people who reside in Roseau county. A country that will build up without the* aid of a railroad needs no other proof of its worth and resources. We owe nothing to Mr. Hill. We made Roseau county without his aid and if as he says, our farmers are no good,'', they at least are under no obligations to him. If he- doesn't like our people, let him keep his road out of here. Now, will Mr. Hill be good? A year, ago he would have been welcome in Eoseau's backyard, but he can't play there any more ,/.i..\ George Westinghouse has invented a device to neutralize railroad collisions. It is described as a "buffer," is attached under a car at each end, and is-composed of a number of wedge-shaped friction strips inclosed in an iron cylinder. Each buffer has a resistance force ot seventy Ave tons, which, in the even of a collision, is exerted before any shock is communi cated to the car itself While this device may take up some of the jolt, the safest place in a smash-up will continue to be somewhere else. The Pioneer Press, which once predicted an early spring and thus nearly ruined the prospects of the wheat crop, had a fit of prophesying on Sunday when it said, "It is difficult to put any other interpre tation on the-cryptic dispatch from Tokip than that Japan has suffered a reverse of some kind in the Korean straits."" After the cruiser David J. Smyth and the battleship Peter E. Costello had gone down and several torpedo boats had blown up with a loud resounding punk Admiral Durham struck his flag to Mayor Weaver Peace reigns in Philadelphia and the liberty bell has taken off its mourning. Relations between Sweden and Norway are said to be somewhat strained. With Russia feeling sick at the stomach the Scandinavian countries have good chance to settle their difficulties without assist- ance.- It would be well to have the mat ter out of the way before the bear begins to walk like a man once more. The salary of the American ambassador to England is $17,5.00. his house rent is $30,000. Some countries that are small but proud and honest build houses for their ministers. Others which, are large', but homely and frugal prefer to sponge the rent from the representative. Doc Bixby of Lincoln, Neb., asks whether we natter ourselves that our way of doing a thing is the only right way. No, but w have noticed that after a thing was done that dear friends would argue that our way of cloing it -was the only sure way to make a mess of it. If at any time you are feeling full of sadness over the decay of style read the Tribune's ode to Memorial day. It will give you an idea of the possibilities of English which may not have occurred to you before. A Chicago pastor recently told his con gregation that the prince of evil often gets into church choirs. When the so prano strikes her show note It often sounds like thator a mouse. Our belligerent friend Cassini is still in the thick of the face fighting. Cassini's mott'o is no surrender so long as there is another word in the dictionary. At every mention of Foraker for presi dent the clock of time has a twinge as if somebody was trying to turn it back about thirty years. Tom Wats oh's magazine is not as inter esting as Tom Watson. I is just one big knock. Everything is wrong. This makes it tiresome. The Japanese are still losing many ships at St. Petersburg, but the roll will be called at Nagasaki. "The sea is free" and the streets of Chicago are nearly so. Peace and civili zation are moving. The ordinary Yank you may occasionally stop, but that man Barr is determined to be always first. i The Faribault golfers seem to have been attacked by the Bryn MawrTsubmarines A firecracker factory at Rockland, Mass., blew up the other day. Good!- ROjestvensky's fleetbut Kuropatkln's a fleeter. He got away. Papa Lihevitch -will hear some day from Oyama. about this CHAT ABOUT AUTHORS Life. The other day Smithlngton Jones, au thor of "The Gent from Shindy Alley," which has just gone to its 999th printing, was riding in.,an elevated car. When the conductor came up to-him Mr. Jones paid his fare. A story- is- going the rounds about Brownson Peters,' author of "A Knight and a Dey," which sold 50,000 copies be fore it was.-"written'.. Mr. Peters was buying a .pair of trous ers. "Will they fade?" lie asked the tailor. "Oh, no," said the latter, who. the way, did not recognize his distinguished customer: "Very well," said Mr. Peters, and or dered the garment sent to his address. Miss Amelia Bunn, author of "Mrs. Bill, the Still," which is bfing dramatized in fourteen languages and forty-six dialects, is noted for her keen retorts. "Good morning," said a friend, meet ing her in the street. "Good morning," answered Miss Bunn, without a moment's hesitation. THE MINNEAP^M^ JOURNAL AMUS: B"* ro: The Day at Wonderland Wonderland was visited by 36,000 people yesterday between 11 a.m, and 10 p.m.. thus beating the record of last Sunday. The' parade held the people in "the after noon down town, so that the bulk of the attendance was in the evening. Those who came in then were ^especially well re paid. The electric tower was ablaze for the first time and its effect was dazzling. The tower is 120 fe$ high and is studded with several thousand incandescent lights arranged in artistic designs. Some larger lights are to be added at the base and the tower is to be surmounted by a search light, but the partial illumination last night was very effective. The big amusement devices, the scenic railway, the chutes, the old mill and the miniature railway ran steadily twelve hours, carrying their patrons by the thou sands. Long lines stood before each, pa tiently waiting their turn. The other at tractions were proportionately well pat ronized. Dancing in the pavilion last night was a favorite diversion with many. There was a brilliant display of fire works, in which- \G. A. R. and other patriotic emblems were shown in honor of the day. The Unique theater -was closed yester day as a mark of respect to the memory of its late manager. Matt Gallagher, whose funeral took plac:yesterday. Perform ances were resumed today. An unusually strong bill is presented this week, the strongest in some respects since the open ing of the theater- last October. Foyer Chat. The ladies attending the Bijou this week are nuo interested in Caroline Hull's sumptuous ultra-modern frocks, which she wears in "Vivian's Papas." Next week at the Bijou Rowland and Clifford will present their latest novelty, "Dora Thome," taken from ,the novel of the samer name. WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK Secret of Japanese Success. To the Editor of The Journal. The mass of the "people of western^na tions knows little of the civilization of the east. The majorijty of the followers of the Nazarene, who taught the highest principles of humanity and brotherhood, have looked with a .mixture of curiosity, contempt and patronizing interest at the "Little Yellow Men" of the island empire of the Yellow sea. Russia is a great "Christian" nation, filled with pride, greed and lust a nation with an enormous standing army and an immense navy at her control backed by some of the greatest of the world's financiers and bankers, a nation with al most unlimited credit, allied by ties of race, consanguinity and marriage with the greatest nations of "great Europe, while flowery Japan is a "heathen" race. Yet when the two nations clashed In warfare, nine-tenths of the judges in the military and naval circles of America and Europe believed that Russia must be vic torious. One of our famous military au thorities said to the writer: "When it comes to war, it is a long bank roll that counts for success Japa^n will be snowed under." In spite of many things to favor the Slavs, Japan has held: the supremacy most of the time. Thus we come to the questionWhy? Western civilization cannot understand the life or the religion of the orient until it comes face to face with it. The whole of the Japanese nation'^ls a unit that not. .only believes ir, but lives the religion in which they are reared. Gentleness, fra ternity, loyalty felt* duty airs so -interwov en in their ii^esthjtth^.b^onifif second ^nature. The^^aj^ese ::i^k#|.trie body second to sbui and spirit. ^^They have learned the lesson that wneriiVp'ne has mastered, the secrets of contenttrient and has necessary shelter, food and raiment he ha$ everything except what gratifies the selfish needs of the body, and that wherr one exerts himself to minister to the purely material side of being he grad ually, joins in the selfish and mad rush to please the senses, forgetting that "the life is more than mea^t and.the body than rai- ment." The religion of Buddha, which In a somewhat modified form is that of Japan, antedates the Christian religion by C00 years, and in real principles is much the same. The Buddhist believes that he makes his own life here and hereafter. In the sunshiny empire even the least child believes with St. Paul that "Whatsoever a man sows that also shall he reap." Western missionaries prate of a fanatic belief in "Fate," as a sort of Juggernaut which hurls one onward, up or down as chance may have it. On might as -well say that all Catholics worship the images of the saints instead of the real thing be hind the symbol, as to say that all Budd hists are idolaters. One must consider the receptivity of the subject. The real fact of the case which is in Comprehensible to the rigid western mind, is that the esoteric philosopher believes that whatever condition exists must have a natural cause governed by natural law. In other words that we have a VKarma cause and effectthat belongs to us thru our own deeds. He believes that within each one lies a spark of the great Over-Soul and that within himself lies the will power to bring him to real one ness -with the All-Sourcenot "nothing- ness." but to cosmic consciousness of all life and being. He believes in performing the duty that lies nearest, be it for per sonal benefit or for that of the nation. Thus he goes forth to battle with the foe because it is his duty to the nation and to his own family. He does not fear death because he does not fear punishment, be lieving that he is either elevated by his own struggle to keep near the great god or degraded by his own wrong-doing. He says: "Live neither in the present nor in the future, but in the eternal." The Japanese lives the life taught by the scriptures of all races: "Whatso ever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." The home life is one of serenity, peace and calnvbflt when he goes forth to war, he does so with mind attuned to the work before him, filled with ambition, not for himself but fpr the, good of the whole, in harmony with his higher officers and his companions. Another thing to be considered, Japan is almost wholly a race of vegetarians. For centuries many of them have never tasted animal food which ministers to the desire nature of man, and thus they are on a higher plane than are the "beef eaters" of western "civilization." Martial authorities, are forecasting Japa I'S movements in case of success, but those who know the inner life of the peo ple believe that the same honor, integrity and temperance which have been so marked attributes of the nation'.s life, will continue to govern its progress and deal ings with the vanquished foe. Marie Percy. QUICK AT REPARTEE Kansas City Star. It appears that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is not only possessed of considerable spunki but he is real quick at repartee. When Charles M. Schwab met him in Europe and said. "Have a good timele other people save their souls for a while," young Mr. Rockefeller delivered this keen retort: "Why, Mr. Schwab!" BURNING THE STONES $ A- '& -t Export Implement Age. In California, where coal is scarce, is found that peach stones .ar equally THE UNEASY CHAIR It good for fuel and grW'out more heat than does' coal in proportion to weight. Large quantities of,stones taken out of the fruit at the canning factories are now dried and sold. WAS ROBERT BROWNING A FALSE PROPHET?Paul Elmer More in The Evening Post (Netf York) says that he believes Robert Browning was a false prophet. He finds ground for Browning's popularity in his emotional intensity, al beit the poet approaches the emotions in directly, and in the fact that Browning "dresses a worldly and easy philosophy in the forms of spiritual faith, and so de ceives the troubled seekers after the high er life." Mr. More points his criticisms with extracts from the poet's work. It is a further explanation of Browning's popularity that there are times when one, suffering under the at least apparent cruelties of life, can listen to none but broad and-easy philosophies, when of the rigid and exacting he has had enough: It is to such that Browning makes a strong appeal. He points them to a God of love wholly love. The falsity of his teaching is in making God only love and mercy, omitting the attributes of justice, holi ness and the rest. Browning doubtless erred in a measure in that respect, but for that we would hardly condemn him out of hand as a false prophet. Few of our prophets have not erred in some partic ular, yet it is well that one has voiced so mightily for the stricken the loving naturo of the Most Hih. HAMLIN GARLAND, Author of "The Tyranny of the Dark" Courtesy of Harper & Brothers. 8 WAS GENERAL CUSTER JUSTIFIED IN DISOBEYING GENERAL TERRY'S ORDERS?-Cyrus Townsend Brady's view, unequivocally expressed in Indian Fights and Fighters, that Custer's slaugh ter on the Little Big Horn in 1876, was due first of all to his own disobedience to his chief's orders, has been seriously ques tioned and has brought upon Mr. Brady severe criticism. While the orders of General Terry gave Custer a good deal of latitude, there is no question that Mr. Brady's position is a strong one. To read his story of Custer's last fight is to be well niffh convinced. The story is only one of many, alike in convincingness, in Mr. Brady's latest ad dition to the series bearing the title, "American Fights and Fighters," which includes "American Fights and Fighters, Colonial." "American Fights and Fight ers, Revolutionary1812," and "Ameri can Fights and Fighters, Border," in ad dition to the volume in hand. The book is profusely illustrated by men who have made reputations as illustrators, especially of such subject-matter as this book contains. The arrangement of the material is good and is indexed in a way to make the book valuable for reference. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. $1.30 net. SON5 If all my love were scattered Into gems The worldly stars we give our Hyes to gain Then in the night, Fancy, that now can bring me only pain,. Would radiant crowns contrive, and crescents bright, And burning diadems. Then on thy finger the soft amethyst Would tremble, love, and in thy hair I'd twine Warm rubles red While to the sweet throat I have never klss'd Pure pearls, like clustering kisses, would I wed, And dream they made It mine. Herbert S. Weber, In Harper's' Magazine' for June. THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF "PROGRESS AND POV ERTY."It is now twenty-five years since Henry George's Progress and Poverty was first published, and in commemora tion of the anniversary an edition bearing a medallion portrait by Mr. George's son, Richard F. George, has been issued. The history of this book has been re markable. It was Mr. George's first work and was written in California, between August, 1877, and March, 1879. Altho written by a man at that time entirely unknown, it at once attracted the most serious attention all over the world, the London Times devoting two pages to a review of it, ajxd other papers in America and England giving1 it columns of careful criticism. Its sale has probably been many times as great as all the other books on kindred subjects combined. The purpose of the book is to set forth a solution to the problem which Mr. George thus describes: "Why in spite of an increase of productive powers do wages tend to a minimum that will give but a bare living?" Donbleday, Page & Co., New York, $1. THE MAGAZINES Standards by Which to Measure Correct ness of Speech.These are days in which a man scarcely feels like risking speech of any sort, for fear of criticism: that is if he be at all sensitive to criticism. Some one is almost sure to "catch him up." "Where shall he find a standard to guide his words? Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury of "Sale answers the question in Harper's Monthly for June in three words, "present good usage." But to get the full meaning of his rule one would better read his article in full the rule will stick the better in his mind if he does. A GoOd Story by Lord Macaulay. This morning we breakfasted with Dean and Mrs. Milman in' the cloisters of Westminster abbey, says an extract from the letters of Edward Everett's daughters written during his ministry in England and published in the June Scrlbner's. They had promised afterward to show us the abbey, which we had never entirely seen. Our party at breakfast was very pleasant besides ourselves, there were Mrs. Ma caulay, Hallam and Hayward, and a sis ter of Mrs. Milman's. Mr. Macaulay was as brilliant as usual at breakfast, and told many pleasing anecdotes, pne I remem ber, of a police officer at Paris, when the famous cantatrice, Mile. Sontag, ap plied for a passport. Instead of filling up the signalement with a precise descrip tion of forehead, hair, eyes, nose, etc., he drew a line down the whole and wrote. "Angelique." Gallant, n'est-ce-pas?-. OUR COUNTRY'S GUARDIANS, Boston Globe. The New York militiamen who served as escort at the funeral of Hiram Cronk were completelv exhausted by a nine mile march, and many of them collapsed when the cemetery was reached. Appar ently a forced march every now and then, by way of exercise, would do the New York militia good. !"'-JvL i w,!}"^ W"VJ "w'"ft'u #3^w*W#j*a*u''4 Mav 31, 1905^ ''"^-'"V^ "&' .3. CITY NEWS INDIANS PAID HIM: PALEFACEFLUNKED JAMES BOSS GIVES AN INDIAN TRADER'S EXPERIENCE. He Says That Twenty-five Years Ago the Sisseton Sioux Owed Him $20,000 Which They Paid in FullWhile a White Debtor Still OwesCiviliza tion Changes Things. James Boss, for twenty-five years an Indian trader at the Sisseton agency of the Sioux Indians in South Dakota, is registered at the St. James today, on his way home from Washington, where he conferred with the federal bureau in charge of Indian affairs. "Fifteen years ago," said .Mr. Ross to The Journal, "the Indians at Sisseton owed me $20,000, and ono white man there, $2. When the Indians got their allowance, I received the $20,000 but never got the $2 owed by the white. Today the Indians have be come so far civilized that I can't trust them at all. "Nor are recent rulings of the de partment at Washington an aid to the Indians. For instance, by a recent rul ing, the Indians can receive but $10 a month of money due them for the sale of lands to which they were heirs. These Indians secured credit and con tracted debts on the strength of the large sums which they supposed were coming to them in a lump. Now they can't pay these debts. The Indians do not like it, nor do the merchants and traders who gave them credit. And are either to be blamed? I have just been to Washington to explain this unfairness to the officials, but I found it little use to talk to them. They have an idea that all Ind ian traders are thieves and robbers, and that what evil ways the Indians now have, they learned from the traders. This is absolutely untrue, and unjust to legitimate business men. I do not think the federal officials understand what is proper for the Ind ians. They make rulings far from the places their rulings affect, and without appreciation of what barm they work." Mr. Boss says that giving of citizen ship rights to Indians with allotments is not turning the Sioux at Sisseton into drunkards. "There is no more drinking among them now," he says, "than before the recent ruling was made. In this statement 1 am unbiased, as I never have dealt in liquor and have never even tasted it in my life, being a temperance man." RENOVATING WILD ANIMALS Bathing and Brushing Up Menagerie Characters a Difficult Process. The care required in keeping circus ani mals in good condition is a matter of great consideration with the Forepaugh Sells Shows which will be in Minneapolis June 5. A force of experienced men un der the supervision of Mr. Patterson, head keeper, are constantly at work bathing, combing, brushing and exercising the dif ferent species. To go over a herd of twenty-five elephants takes many hours each day I order to Ueep the skin soft and dean it is first carefully oiled. The oil is rubbed well into the hide and as a rule six or eight men are set to work on the same animal. Some' of the work men attack the elephant's legs while others climb ladders and rub the huge back. The hippopotamus Is tied down every two weeks and receives an oil bath, the keeper applying rrjeatsfoot oil with a stiff brush. Monkeys require more at tention than one would imagine. aThey must be cleaned and brushed and the worn spots of their fur covered up, and if they look Weak or sickly they must be doc \tored. Lions are not hard to "fix'" up in the way of toilet. Care must be taken, how ever, that the water is not too cold, be cause liohs are sensitive to cold and apt to go off with galloping consumption. Hyenas and black leopards don't take kindly to water. They have to be roped down and muzzled for bathing. SCARE IS GROUNDLESS Diphtheria Case on Grand Avenue Starts Gossip* in Neighborhood. A diphtheria scare, which, as far as can be learned, is not well-founded, has been started in- the neighborhood of Grand avenue and Twenty-eighth street. Three children of Samuel Nelson, who were living with their grandmother at 2801 Grand avenue, were found to be ill with the disease. The oldest, a girl of about 11 years, was taken seriously ill last Tuesday and died yesterday. The other two are now practically well, and it is thought, out of danger. The scare seems to come from the fact that the family lived over a grocery store where people were continually going and coming. Dr. Lew is Dunn, the physician in charge, said today that thev had been properly quarantined and that others had not been exposed since the discov ery of the nature of the disease. BEFORE THE PUBLIC EYE The closing Tecital of the vocal, elo cution and piano departments of the Hjort school will be given this evening in the parochial school hall of Our Savior's Norwegian Lutheran church. The program will be given by the Hjort trio, Misses Florida Henault, Hazel' Whitcomb. Alvilde Bjorn. Ma thilde Sevareid, Clara S. Larson, Helen Salzer. Clara A. Lunde and Mi*. Marion Donnelly. Mr. Hjort will present cer tificates to Misses Bjorn, Whitcomb, Larson and Mrs. Donnelly. A CONGRESS OF NATIONS The St. Paul Police Commission Settles Nationality Question Diplomatically. Thirty new policemen were created by the St. Paul police commission today in accordance wi,th the authority voted at the November election. The commission has been having trouble in making theso appointments. There were over 400 appli cants with good political support, but the physical question was not nearly as puz zling as the nationality problem. This has now been settled by selecting ten Irish, ten Scandinavians, five Germans and five from miscellaneous nationalities. NKBRASKANS EN TOUR Members of Lumberman's Association to Be Entertained in Montana. Special to The Journal. Missoula, Mont., May 91.The officials of the Big Blackfoot Milling company have arranged for a reception to the members of the Nebraska Lumber Deal-^ ere' association, who are scheduled to ar rive in -Bonner about noon on June 8. They will make an inspection of the com pany's mill and a banquet will be ten dered them in the evening. The party will then continue on its way weBt, and make its next stop at Sand Point, Idaho. It will also visit the lum ber ^regions of Oregon and Washington. The object of the trip is for the purpose of making a thoro inspection ol the lumDer Industry in the west. There will be 175 in the party, and It will be one. of the largest representative bodies that has ever made a trip to the coast. .5"^^ CLAPP ON RATE HEARINGS SENATOB, SATS HIS COMMITTEE WILL NOT tflSCUSS MEEITS OF, QUESTION UNTIL PALL. Senator Moses E. Clapp has just re turned from Washington, where, as a member of the senate committee on in terstate commerce, he has been attend ing the hearings on the railroad rate bills. says of the committee's work Our hearings extended over five weeks, and were very complete. We heard every one, no matter who he was, and as con siderable publicity was given to the hear ings in advance no fault could be found, for want of opportunity to be heard. Of| course, in a hearing of that length neces-., sarily a great deal of evidence was taken which may not be-of much importance/ but much of it is important on the gen eral questions of transportation both as to the regulation of rates and tne subject generally known as the private car lines. The evidence will be thoroly Indexed and the committee will meet for the pur pose of preparing a report two or three weeks before congress meets. No action was taken nor discussion had which would form any tasi for determinins a.t t.nt time what report the committee will make^ The matter has never been discussed iB the committee. There probably will not be an extrs. session of congress in the sense of aa extraordinary session. It is ba.rely pos sible that the president will convene con gress two or three weeks earlier than the regular time for convening, with the idea that by doing so It can get ready by the first of December instead of taking the usual time after the first of Decembe* for organization. The matter of a deficit is no occasion for any serious alarm. The expenditures of the government have been rather heavy the last two years. The canal project ha required a great deal of money and then it is not always possible to measure ac curately disbursements and receipts in great government, so that the fact that there happens to be a deficit at present in itself presents no occasion for alarm. Senator Clapp is in favor of abolish ing the Panama canal commission, and placing the work in the hands of the war department, which already has or ganization of the kind needed to handle the canal work. STRANGE ROBBERY STORY WOMAN TELLS OF EXCITING EX- PERIENCE WITH BUBGLAE, BUT POLICE DISBELIEVE IT. A strange story of robbery and bru tal treatment is told by Mrs. Eliza beth A. Cole, 905 Chicago avenue, who was found unconscious early yesterday morning in the basement of an unfin ished building near her home. Mrs. Cole's cries were heard by the neigh bors, who ran to the rescue, and, with the aid of a ladder, took her from the basement to her rooms. She told her rescuers that while she was sitting alone in her room about 10 o'clock Monday night, a burglar quietly entered the room, threw a cloth over her head and robbed her of $90 in bills which she carried in her stock ing. Then choking her almost to in sensibility, he carried her down stairs and threw her into the basement direct ly back of the new Asbury hospital. There she lay unconscious until 2 o'clock in the morning, when she cried for help. The police, on hearing of the matter, went to the residence, but Mrs. Gole would not talk to the officers. An in vestigation resulted in the report that Mrs. Cdle had gone away from home in a carriage earlier in the evening and was not at home when she said the burglar entered. Those who aided in her rescue from the cellar said that she wore an evening gown. She denies this. The police believe that the woman fell into the cellar and was not.robbed. M/rs. Cole is a widow and has kept a rooming house at 905 Chicago avenue for several years. TELLS OF WOOD FOLK Magazine Issued by Kenwood PupIU Gives News of Blrdville. "Wood Folk," a clever little magazine issued by the Kenwood school children, who are members of the Audubon soci ety, and devoted to the Interests of the native birds, has come out with a special edition in honor of the 125th anniversary of John James Audubon, the great nat uralist. All the latest news of Birdville is contained in the little magazine, and is presented in clever sketches and poems by the children. The Audubon society has as its motto "A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand." The birds are studied and every effort is made to encourage them to make their homes in Kenwood. '.'Lunch coun ters" are provided and protection of every sort afforded, with the result that there are birds of every sort and size in Ken wood. The magazine is the official organ of the society and in Its various departments gives a lot of useful and Interesting in formation, besides the clever stories and anecdotes. Miss Marian Conner is edi tor and is assisted by WiUard Hale and Lucille Simmons, associate editors. MEN OF MEDICINE MEET State Association In Convention In St. Paul. Delegates to the convention of the Minne sota State Medical association assembled this afternoon for a three-days' session at Elks' hall, St. Paul. The regular business of the association was taken up today. Thursday and Friday will be devoted to the reading of papers and discussion on medical matters. On Friday evening the Ramsey County Medical association win give a social entertainment at Elks' hall in honor of the delegates. There will be vaudeville performances and a luncheon with after-dinner speeches. The association has thirty-seven af filiated county medical societies with about 1,000 physicians and surgeons as members. The officers are: Dr. J. W. Bell, of Minneapolis, president Dr. Thom as McXavitt of St. Paul, secretary and Dr. R. J. Hill, of Minneapolis, treasurer. RESCUED BY HIS CHUM -|_ Drowning Accident Averted by Heroism of Modest Boy. -Willie Jones, 2300 Nineteenth avenue S, was saved from death in the river yes terday by his 15-year-old chum, who re fused to tell his name. The boys were swimming near the Franklin avenue bridge, when Willie swam out beyond his depth and began to cry for help. The other boy told him not to get excited, and in a few minutes he was by the struggling boy's side. In a moment more the two were on the bank Meanwhile a call had been sent to the South Side station, but -when the patrol wagon arrived the boy were_playing. Eeo Bunabouts Here. .The arrival of a carload of Reo Run abouts has been the cause of consider able favorable comment among the local auto enthusiasts. This car is in every respect as fine and perfect a car as its bigger brotherthe Reo Touring. Car. I made by the same expert designer and builder,' with the same superbly simple mechanism and remarkable. power. Demonstrating c&ts always **K^jLT& the service of interested parties. J* "V- vJX